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Tuesday, 22 January 2013

RP No 114 Jacobite MacGillicuddy's foot regt

The twelfth and last of my Irish Jacobite foot regiments (for now, he says??) For the Battle of the Boyne and for Aughrim. I wasn't quite sure what regt to paint up for my last foot regt, so I made up several different flags for different regiments but finally chose MacGillicuddy's foot, for no particular reason other than the great sounding name. I've not seen any other wargamer paint this unit up, so thought it would be a good addition the my army.

As per usual trying to find any info on the unit proved very difficult, but their Commander Denis MacGillicuddy was killed during the Battle of Aughrim in 1691.

MacGillicuddy's were entered into the Analouge Painting Challange and earned me 40 points, I'm currently in 10th place, although my highest position so far was 7th. There are still 56 days to go in the Challenge but I'm gonna struggle making the top 10 let alone the planned top 5. Oh well?

"The governor of Cork was colonel Macgillicuddy, who had four thousand men for garrison. He held out to the twenty-eighth of September, at which time he was forced to yield the town and the garrison to be prisoners of war, for want of powder, which the enemy knew the day before—a strange neglect in business of highest consequence, and an usual defect in the management of this war, as I have often mentioned." "When the fleet [carrying prisoners from the siege of Cork] arrived in England, the prisoners of the chiefest consideration were put into the tower of London; as the earl of Clancarty, the earl of Tyrone, who died therein, the lord baron of Cahir, and colonel Macgillicuddy, governor of Cork." from "A Jacobite narrative of the war in Ireland" author unknown and quoted here http://www.ucc.ie/celt/online/E703001-001.html

"In 1687 Colonel MacGillicuddy, called Denis, was Sheriff of the county Kerry, and got estates under an assumed name.

In 1689 Col. Roger MacElligott and his cousin Col. Cornelius MacGillicuddy, of the Reeks (who was Governor of Kinsale), were both in Parliament as Members for Ardfert. Two MacGillicuddys, one of whom was an Ensign, and the other a Lieutenant, were both in Lord Kenmare's Regiment.

In 1690 Col. MacGillicuddy war Governor of Cork when it was taken by the future Duke of Marlborough.

In 1697 Col. Roger MacElligott was released from the Tower of London, after four years' incarceration therein. He then joined the Irish Brigade in France, as Colonel, with three of the MacGillicuddys."